Earthing in kitchen

[ARW]

I have a fire plan - but then I have enemies.

My fire plan is the bedroom window.

[dennis]

You have a slight problem.. if RCDs are supposed to cut down on fires then adding in emergency lights with batteries and chargers will probably defeat that purpose. I can see that the added complexity of rcds + emergency lights may result in a less reliable system than the one you started with.

[John Rumm]

Can't say I have noted backup lighting being cited as a particular fire risk (and its extensively used commercially)

I fit emergency lights because they are very useful in their own right - not to overcome any perceived limitation in RCDs. Non RCD circuits fail to work in a power cut just as much as RCD protected ones.

One by the CU is always handy, and then a couple illuminating the main escape route (I have one at the top of the stairs, and another in the hall) - and with no street lights etc, on a night with no moon, dark can be almost total.

[Johny B Good]

Presumably your bedroom is on the ground floor or you live in a bungalow (you neglected to make mention of a rope ladder).

[meow2222]

I'm sure its a good thing, but since few have it one has to address other o ptions.

Not really, lighting runs mostly in ceiling voids with just one or 2 up/dow n runs. Sockets OTOH have lots of horizontal or vertical wall cable. And si nce drilling into cable is such a rare way to get a shock, it has very litt le effect on the overall stats.

NT

[Robin]

Everywhere I've lived has had lots of plate switches with vertical cable runs.

As regards shocks from switches, I am sure you'd get some good examples if you asked on Mumsnet.

[Martin Bonner]

My father managed to touch live and neutral with left and right hand when doing some work in his mother's loft. The current prevented him calling out, so I don't know what broke the circuit ... but he survived another

40 years.

[Adam Funk]

I like it, but I wouldn't be able to get it past the Planning Committee.

[ARW]

It's not that difficult to climb out of a first floor window and land safely,